According to Marvel svp sales and marketing David Gabriel, the new collections will “be bouncing around to different periods of Star Wars history with each Epic Collection, constructing one huge tapestry, collecting full unbroken runs of all the greatest Star Wars comics from the past 35 years.”

Well, somewhat unbroken, at least. The first collection, April 2015’s Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 1, collects material from four different series to create a chronologically specific retelling of the events directly following the movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and the rise of the Galactic Empire — the same period explored in the new Disney XD series Star Wars: Rebels.